And this one because it is fun and we missed learning it earlier:
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Does anyone else feel that there are just too many distractions these days discouraging intimate moments with our loved ones? Cell phones in bed.. Televisi...
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Click on event name for more information Freedom to Read Week~ ongoing until Mar 3, Canada Pratham Book Events at World Book Fair~ ongoing until Mar 4, New...
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Announcing the Seventh Annual Living Education Retreat! The theme this year is "Pursuit and Passion: Charlotte Mason and Science". A rich, unique experi...
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Dear Friends, *I'm so thankful to have all of you. :)* I want to express my deeply felt thanks to those who have been praying for me. I feel all wrapped up...
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Kerugma - marriage, motherhood & mess Kerugma The real boss of the house... I love that you're subscribed to my site... but I'd love it even more if you...
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Isn't it strange how the Lord has designed us with so much emotion? This morning I have a crowd of emotions and the battle is to not be led by them. If ...
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Demolition Boy is rocketing through his reading this week. This time last year I was pulling my hair out because Demolition Boy was refusing to do the le...
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[image: Starting] [image: x] [image: filling in] A chain stitch sampler (phone photos). Because I like chain stitch and I need something with which to warm...
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Although we are now well into the new year, I thought I'd share a couple of things I have determined to improve this year. I have started various Bible re...
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Today I did a radio interview with Tanya and David on KOFM. Apparenty homeschooling is continuing to rise in Australia. They quoted a figure of 50 000 kids...
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Have you ever seen the movie Pollyanna? I know I'm showing my age but these wholesome movies are hard to come by these days and they held so much good, str...
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The beauty of this recipe is that it can simultaneously with the Chocolate Kiss biscuits, using up left over egg yolks. 4 egg yolks 150 grams icing sugar 3...
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I’m sitting at our kitchen table as I write this. The sun is shining through the slats of the blinds. I can look through and see our dog fossicking about i...
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I will make this blog private on Monday next week. If you would like to follow me on His Pen on My Heart, you will need to do so soon. Thanks for your lo...
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Mum was telling us yesterday of an incident that she recalls when Don first married Margaret & they were renting a house opposite from her, they used to le...
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I have a brand new blog with a very long first post, come check it out :-) http://caz1975-thejourneyofus.blogspot.com/
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Unlike the rest of the country, the weather in Seattle has been cool for several weeks now. In fact, our "Summer" (and I use that term very loosely) never ...
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hello thi is a test. the blockquote rubbish goes here. o la la la! this is so awesome. <3
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If you're seeing this at springvaleacademy.blogspot.com, it's time to head back over to www.anordinarymom.com ! It looks a bit different, ok a lot differen...
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No Excuses For Missing Mass1. Cots will be placed in the foyer for those who say "Sunday is my only day to sleep in."2. We will have steel helmets for those ...
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Hi,Haven't posted for a while!Been busy reorganising curriculum and touring Disneyland!We took the girls down from Sunday to Thursday last week. The boys sta...
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I'll be up front and say that I was bullied in school. I had someone kick the back of my knee (to make me stumble and fall) as I was walking down a set of ...
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Some children who are born deaf recover from their deafness Clinical research conducted in the Department of Communication Disorders at the University of ...
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I’m participating in a blog link-up in honor of Dr. Seuss’s birthday tomorrow on March 2. Since Sprite is a middle schooler (7th grade), you might be surpr...
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Another gray day, but a nice gray. Grey, if you’ll allow me to go all Vicky Austin on you. You could see the blue glimmering just behind the clouds. We’re ...
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Tonight's menu: Chili, from the *Tightwad Gazette* Cornbread, from *Good Recipes for Hard Times* Vanilla milkshakes, from the Hillbilly Housewife. The App...
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I spent some time on the AdoptUsKids website earlier today, looking at profiles of children waiting to be adopted, and hearing them talk about how hard it ...
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As Pooh Bear would say — and you know it already — Happy Winds-day! But here it is nearly evening! Where has the day gone? I used to never wear green. ...
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Picture study is such a great way to add a little something to your day that brings a nice change of pace and “freshens your wits,” as Charlotte liked to d...
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Interested in that marriage handout Michelle gave out at a women's Bible study recently? No surprise that it's from Bill Gothard's ATI/IBLP. Read all abou...
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Charlotte Mason’s (1842-1923) educational philosophy and especially her ideas for educational practice have been increasingly discussed in the last two dec...
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Each week I post a sampling from my corner of the Twittersphere, @NWBingham.
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People who don’t homeschool have always assumed that I wouldn’t dare homeschool for highschool. Surely not!? I dare. What’s more, for those of you not the...
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I am currently working on Cats & Mice by Jade Starmore I am using Jamiesons Spindrift in colours of my own choosing. This is a lovely knit, much easier tha...
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Ethan has a phone in his hand, and is talking Matty language to Matty who is on his regularly held hand phone. So funny. Wish I had a video camera with...
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This is more of a concrete poem than a haiku, but I liked the idea so much I fashioned something for it. Hope your dreams are full of spring flowers. File...
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[image: january][image: january][image: january][image: january on utsurundesu one-use camera][image: january on utsurundesu one-use camera][image: january...
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In case you don’t follow the sister site, Just Hungry, last week we got home from attending my father’s memorial service in New York to find out we had b...
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画像クリックで拡大 3月10日(土)より開催する展示会のご案内です。安部太一さんの作る器の立ち姿に魅せられてきました。それはモランディの描く静物画を眺めるような心地良さです。地元、島根県は今でも民藝の流れを汲む窯元が盛んな地域。その土着性と欧州のエレガントな形態を兼ね備えた安部さんの器は、食卓に美術的な彩りをも...
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[image: hand printed tea towel] With the publication of this article in the International Journal of Art and Design Education my various worlds have fused ...
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today is the 11 month anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami in tohoku on 3.11.2011. as i have mentioned here before, by main work/study in japan is r...
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このブログサイトさんにも、なんやかやと、お世話になりました。 ステップアップのため、下記URLへ引っ越しました。 http://chiiori.jugem.jp/ なお、これまでの記事はこのサイトで引き続きご覧頂ける形を取らせて頂きます。 何卒よろしくお願い申し上げます。。
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First, please let me apologize for the long absence. As regular readers are aware, Deep Kyoto has been hacked repeatedly over the last three months and the...
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Whew! What a week. I'm not even sure why it was such a "whew" week, except that perhaps my muscles have atrophied from sitting around in a state of corgi-cov...
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Ian Johnson Ian Johnson Ran Yunfei One of China’s most outspoken public intellectuals, Ran Yunfei was detained last year after calls went out for Chin...
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Jen Altman is one of my favorite bloggers and photographers. I am captivated by her endless energy and creativity and all the fun she has with her three da...
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It was almost fifty years before Gille felt able to confront the life and death of her talented mother, and she chose to do so not in the form of a memo...
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My four children's books are being published in a neat alternating spring/autumn pattern. I've noticed this because I've been noticing lots of different patt...
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Today I took photos of some of the pretty little gifts I brought home from Alt Summit. Would you like to see? This is leather notebook from Susan of Freshl...
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Surreal, interesting illustrations by Spanish illustrator Pablo Auladell... [image: pabloauladell6] [image: pabloauladell8]
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Funny isn't it, that even though February is the shortest month of the year, it very much feels like the longest? I try not to struggle with this funny secon...
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This blanket can be finished. I believe that now. I've been knitting like a demon on it, and after putting in some solid work, I think the end is in sig...
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Vintage wedding by Melbourne boutique catering company Cookes Food – photos by Jorge de Araujo Vintage wedding by Cookes Food – photos by Jorge de Araujo W...
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Jeremiah 29:11 is a well known and much loved Bible verse, and it's been on my heart this week. You see, all of my plans have gone out the window, and God'...
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Well my house is in HUGE chaos. I have no ceiling in my kitchen (we have to replace the upstairs toilet but first have to level the floor). Half the time all...
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It has been a couple of weeks since I shared a Japanese craft book and this one is just lovely. It is divided into 3 sections *I love flowers, Lov...
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The end of February can be brutal in New England. Certainly more than one inhabitant of the region has felt that powers of darkness have seized the barren...
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[image: us-1292659] This is one of my favorite black and white photos I've sent on Postcrossinglately: US-1292659 to Amanda37 in the Netherlands. The pos...
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Sorry I've been so slow in getting this information to you but it's been very busy here. Today we'll be here: 1:30pm Dymocks Melbourne, Lower Ground, 234 C...
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Hello! Do you know the work of Helen Stephens? She illustrates children's books, and I just have to share these two books I bought, with you. She wrote and i...
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This week I have been absent from blogging and most internet communications as my laptop has decided that the battery is just plain "exhausted"... So in the...
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Happy Love Day! I couldn’t resist posting this book today in honor of St. Valentine. This beautiful little book is a collection of Shakespeare’s Love Sonne...
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We have been keeping a keen eye on the sun... without looking right at it of course. Winter Solstice is coming and we have been watching the path of the sun ...
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Golden Books have had such a well deserved resurgence in the market over the last couple of years. As a series they have been around for 65 years – can you...
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Kid’s literature and playrooms have long included castles and kingdoms, kings and queens, knights and dragons. In my 1970s toy box Fisher Price reigned sup...
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Parfois, un nuage dans le ciel ressemble à une brouette, l'ombre d'un chat à un loup-garou et la tête de votre collègue à un cactus. Quand Sandrine Boulet ...
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My [MONA x +] scarf. Crocheted as we drove to Hobart for opening of [MONA x +] a couple of weekends ago. No pattern - it just grew, and found a life of it's ...
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